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White Croats (Byelohravati) is the designation for one group of Slavic (Croatian) tribes which migrated to Dalmatia (the coastal part of today's Croatia) as part of the migration of the Croats in 610-641 A.D. Their homeland, defined by Edward Gibbon as "the inland regions of Silesia and Lesser Poland", has occasionally been referred to as White Croatia.
In the late 10th century, White Croats were one of the tribes ruled by Slavnik's dynasty. In 995 A.D. Czech warriors from Bohemia invaded the White Croat tribe and destroyed their capital at Libice. Soon after the Byelohravati were invaded by the new Polish kingdom. The last ruler, Soběbor (Sobjeslav), was killed near Prague by Polish forces in 1004 A.D.
The White Croats should not be conflated with the eponymous East Slavic tribe, which, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, inhabited the vicinity of Przemyśl in the 10th and 11th centuries. They were the neighbours of the Lędzianie.
It is interesting to add that according to some American documents from the beginning of 20th century there were about 100,000 immigrants to the USA born around Krakow who declared themselves to be Bielo-Chorvats, i.e. White Croats by nationality.[1]
References
- ^ US Senate-Reports on the Immigration commission, Dictionary of races or peoples, Washington DC, 1911, p. 40, 43, 105.
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